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Overview
| Comment: | Clarification of what it means for the expression in a DEFAULT clause to be constant. |
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| User & Date: | drh 2014-02-22 13:55:53 |
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2014-02-28
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| 12:26 | Minor clarifications of recent documentation. check-in: e139253c4b user: drh tags: trunk | |
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2014-02-22
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| 13:55 | Clarification of what it means for the expression in a DEFAULT clause to be constant. check-in: 0b36750358 user: drh tags: trunk | |
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2014-02-21
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| 13:21 | Update the all-bnf.html file. check-in: 424fd15707 user: drh tags: trunk | |
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is no explicit DEFAULT clause attached to a column definition, then the
default value of the column is NULL. ^(An explicit DEFAULT clause may specify
that the default value is NULL, a string constant, a blob constant, a
signed-number, or any constant expression enclosed in parentheses. An explicit
default value may also be one of the special case-independent keywords
CURRENT_TIME, CURRENT_DATE or CURRENT_TIMESTAMP.)^ ^For the purposes of the
DEFAULT clause, an expression is considered constant provided that it does
not contain any sub-queries or string constants enclosed in double quotes.
<p>^(Each time a row is inserted into the table by an INSERT statement that
does not provide explicit values for all table columns the values stored in
the new row are determined by their default values)^, as follows:
<ul>
<li><p>^If the default value of the column is a constant NULL, text, blob or
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is no explicit DEFAULT clause attached to a column definition, then the default value of the column is NULL. ^(An explicit DEFAULT clause may specify that the default value is NULL, a string constant, a blob constant, a signed-number, or any constant expression enclosed in parentheses. An explicit default value may also be one of the special case-independent keywords CURRENT_TIME, CURRENT_DATE or CURRENT_TIMESTAMP.)^ ^For the purposes of the DEFAULT clause, an expression is considered constant provided that it does not contain any sub-queries, column or table references, or string literals enclosed in double-quotes instead of single-quotes. <p>^(Each time a row is inserted into the table by an INSERT statement that does not provide explicit values for all table columns the values stored in the new row are determined by their default values)^, as follows: <ul> <li><p>^If the default value of the column is a constant NULL, text, blob or |